"After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever...

Set against the backdrop of the historic flooding of the Mississippi River, this is an extraordinary tale of murder and moonshine, sandbagging and saboteurs, and a man and woman who find unexpected love. Written by an acclaimed author and an award-winning poet, The Tilted World is that rarest of creations, a story of seemingly ordinary people who find hope and deliverance where they least expect it -- in each other.

A former reporter solves the murder of a developer with the help of a cat. An innocent man may have been framed.

"Responding to orders from on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced to hire its first black officers, including war veterans Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith. The newly minted policemen are met with deep hostility by their white peers: they aren't allowed to arrest white suspects, drive squad cars, or set foot in the police headquarters. When a black woman who was last seen in a car driven by a white man turns up dead, Boggs and Smith suspect...

When a series of murders strikes small-town Kansas, FBI Special Agent Pendergast must track down a killer or a curse — either way, no one is safe.
A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground.
Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy?
Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land?
Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America's heartland.
No one is safe.

Retells the following Greek myths: "The Gorgon's Head, " "The Golden Touch, " "The Paradise of Children, " "The Three Golden Apples, " "The Miraculous Pitcher, " and "The Chimaera." Includes essays on Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walter Crane.

"By the author of acclaimed biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Adams, a penetrating biography of one of the most high-minded, consequential, and controversial US presidents, Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924). The Moralist is a cautionary tale about the perils of moral vanity and American overreach in foreign affairs."--Provided by publisher.

The residents of the small town of Caprock become involved with the growing oil prospecting and corruption of Prohibition-era West Texas.

In the dark where two dusty back roads cross a black car sits waiting. The man inside will make a deal he has many times before and will again. He is known in these parts as The Judge. A Single Round is a collection of stories from Hard Place. Fully illustrated. Stories of moonshine and shotguns, obsession and transcendence, love and darkness, and the blindness of human desire. Each tale follows a painful path to one ultimate realization: the devil's...

The Raising of a Rebel is a heart-wrenching and heartwarming story of a young man who grew up as a product of the moonshine industry in the mountains of North Georgia. His daddy was a moonshiner, and his mama helped in the business, as well. They were both alcoholics. Follow his journey through a tumultuous childhood, high school basketball stardom, the choice that changed it all...and the man it sculpted along the way. You'll learn about the...